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. GEO;l SIMMONSAND GEO.; H; SIMMONS, OF BENNINGTON, VERMONT.

OIL-CAN.

j Specification of Letters PatentuNo.y 17,810, dated-July 14, 1857.

Wheels, &c.;' and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists in providing (for general use) a cylindrical can about 2i inches in diameter and 4 inches high, one inch at the top being tapered down to admit a screw stopper of one inch diameter (or of any other convenient dimensions). In the center of the stopper is an aperture, in which is Xed, by screw or otherwise, a stem or pi e, tapering nearly to a point through whic the oil is emitted, when the can is inverted. In a dee annular groove, around the stem, is an air ole, openlng into a tube, which is joined to the stoper, and descending down about threefburths the depths of the can, runs into, and Supports a cuspated tube, the lower end of which is closed, and is as large as will pass into, and out of, the mouth of the can, eX- tending nearly down to its bottom, and u nearly to the stopper, and having a smal outlet at the oint or top, through which the air is. drawn ffom the air hole in the annular groove to ll the vacuum occasioned by the draft of oil from the stem.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our said invention we will proceed to give a more particular description of its construction and odpreration b referring to 'the accompanying awing, w `ch is a vertical section of the can, showing (appended to the bottom of the stopper) the apparatus by which the air is admitted to su pl the vacuum occasioned by the draft of) oi from the stem.

C the can, to contain the oil or other lubricator. About 2% inches in diameter and 4 inches high, one inch of the top of which being tapered down Vto receive the screw stopper S, about one inch diameter, (or the can may be of any other desirable dimensions) the mouth or top of the can bescrewed in, thoug ing fitted with a female screw to receive the screw stopperv S, the inside of the can being free from fixtures or attachments.

S is the screw stop er fitted to the female screw in the mouth o Vthe can, and having a pipeor stem, screwed or otherwise attached to the center of the stopper, through which the oil is discharged, around which stern is a deep annular groove g, from the bottom of which groove the air tube A descends down nto, and supports the cus ated tube T.

A is the air tube, firm y attached to the stopper, and descending from the bottom of the annular groove, enters into the cuspated tube T, near the middle, and extends nearly to the bottom of the said tube; and being firmly attached to, supports the cuspated tube in its position, independent of the body of the can.

T, the cuspated tube-is at the bottom closed, and as large as will pass freely through the mouth of the can-being connected to, and supported by the air tube A. Reaching from near the bottom of the can, nearly to the under side of the stopper S, at the point or upper end of which tube T, is a smal a erture through which the air is discharge into the can, thus furnishing an unobstructed passage for the air from the bottom ofthe groove g, through the air tube A, and the tube T, into the can near the bottom of the pipe P. And the tube T, being united to the tube A, which is firmly attached to the stopper S, by unscrewing the stopper they may be all removed together to c eanse the can and its aerating ap endages.

P the stem or disc ar e ipe-may be made long or short-croo e or straightlarge or small as may best accommodate the business for which it is intended, or stems of different dimensions may be tted to screw into the same sto per.

g is a dee annu ar groove around the stem or pipe P t inlet to t e air tube A.

Operation: The can-and appendages being arranged as herein specified-.the oi ma be lled in to any desirable depth, for (if lled to the stopper) the oil will pass out only at the discharge pi e, when the sto per is the can should `e in a horizontal position-but when inverted or brought down to an angle of 30 or more degrees, the oil passes out of the stem, and the ough the bottom of which is the air is drawn through the air tube A, into the tube T, near the bottom, and is thence discharged at the point of the tube T, near the bottom of the stopper so that, if by any means, a small amount of oil gets into either of the tubes (Which is hardly possible) it Will run down to the bottom or large end of the tube T, Without stopping the air passage and when the can is inverted, the oil Will pass out at the point of the cuspated tube, even When the can is full of oil.

Having thus fully described the nature and obj ect of our invention, We would state that We do not claim the interior tubes of the can nor do We claim generally the yfastening of the air vents of an oil can to the stopper but What We do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Fastening the air vessel or tube T, to the oil tube A, and the oil tube to the stopper S, so that the Whole may be removed together for the purpose of cleansing or repairs, by Which means We produce a better article of manufacture than when said tubes are fastened to the can, and are not removablethe Whole being made as herein set forth.

GEORGE W. SIMMONS. GEORGE H. SIMMONS.

Witnesses:

JOHN HAsTINGs, JAMES W. ELWILL. 

